Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a care home worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a care home worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Care home workers provide domiciliary services to vulnerable adults including frail elderly or disabled people who are living with physical impairment or convalescing, following a specific plan to provide day-to-day care to clients. They look after the physical and mental wellbeing of clients by providing them social care. These services could be developed in residential homes, care homes or in the patient's home. In relation to this last case, they aim to improve patients' lives in the community and assure patients can live safely and independently in their own home.

Also known as residential care home worker, care home manager, care support worker, care home supervisor, care home assistant, care at home worker, homecare assistant, community home care worker, home care assistant, domiciliary care worker, care worker (homecare), domiciliary homecare worker.

Technicians and associate professionals 63 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child day care worker, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social care worker 80% covered child day care worker 80% covered social work assistant 67% covered social work supervisor 66% covered enterprise development worker 66% covered care home worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from care home worker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a care home worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A care home worker needs 62 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • support social service users to live at home communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
  • encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities assisting and caring
  • monitor service users' health information skills
  • refer service users to community resources assisting and caring
  • support service users in developing skills assisting and caring
  • support service users to use technological aids assisting and caring
  • support social service users with specific communication needs assisting and caring
  • support social service users' positiveness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • undertake risk assessment of social service users information skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a care home worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Care home worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a care home worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.